{"id":135,"date":"2016-10-01T17:20:00","date_gmt":"2016-10-01T17:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.modernclassics.com\/blog\/?p=135"},"modified":"2026-04-11T20:33:45","modified_gmt":"2026-04-11T20:33:45","slug":"corona-chair-paul-volther-closer-look","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.modernclassics.com\/blog\/corona-chair-paul-volther-closer-look\/","title":{"rendered":"Corona Chair by Paul Volther: A Closer Look"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_4220\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"\/store\/pc\/Corona-Chair-Volther-Style-p863.htm\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4220\" class=\"img-responsive wp-image-4220 size-medium\" src=\"\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/g-MC-6712-L211-set-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"Volther Style Corona Chair in Beige White\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-4220\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Volther Inspired Corona Chair in Beige White<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Do you remember seeing this chair on <em>Mad Men<\/em> a few years back? \u00a0Ever wonder who designed it and where you can get an excellent version of this Corona Chair, an iconic classic? \u00a0Read on&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>It is hard to believe Poul Volther&#8217;s famous Corona Chair, launched in 1961 in Denmark, was met with a disappointingly weak response by the Danish market. The persistent designer decided to take a chance on the US market and thank goodness he did because it became a smashing success and has maintained its iconic status as a 20th century modern furniture design ever since.<\/p>\n<p>Our <a href=\"\/store\/pc\/Corona-Chair-Volther-Style-p863.htm\">Corona Chair Replica<\/a> honor the same dimensions as Volther&#8217;s signature model, although our version makes use of higher quality materials Volther did not have available during his time. Thanks to advances in technology since 1961, we are able to make use of these superior materials and an unparalleled comfort and durability. This includes the stainless steel swivel base, high resilient multi-density foam and molded fiber-reinforced polymer internal shell.<\/p>\n<p>You can see seat and swivel in our version and also check out everything else we have by visiting our showroom location in <a href=\"\/mc-showroom-bellingham.html\">Bellingham<\/a>!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Do you remember seeing this chair on Mad Men a few years back? \u00a0Ever wonder who designed it and where you can get an excellent version of this Corona Chair, an iconic classic? \u00a0Read on&#8230; It is hard to believe Poul Volther&#8217;s famous Corona Chair, launched in 1961 in Denmark, was met with a disappointingly [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[50,26,34],"tags":[38],"class_list":["post-135","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-closer-looks","category-paul-volther","category-scandinavian-modern","tag-closer-looks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.modernclassics.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.modernclassics.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.modernclassics.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.modernclassics.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.modernclassics.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=135"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.modernclassics.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5297,"href":"https:\/\/www.modernclassics.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135\/revisions\/5297"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.modernclassics.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=135"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.modernclassics.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=135"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.modernclassics.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=135"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}